Terebra

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Terebra
Terebra diversity.png
Terebra spp.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Terebra
Bruguière, 1789
Type species
Buccinum subulatum
Linnaeus, 1767
Synonyms [1]
  • CinguloterebraOyama, 1961
  • Dimidacus Iredale, 1929
  • Myurellina Bartsch, 1923
  • Noditerebra Cossmann, 1896
  • NototerebraCotton, 1947
  • PanaterebraOlsson, 1967
  • Perirhoe (Dimidacus)Iredale, 1929
  • ParaterebraWoodring, 1928
  • Subula Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebra (Dimidacus)Iredale, 1929
  • Terebra (Subula)Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebra (Triplostephanus)Dall, 1908
  • Terebrina Bartsch, 1923(Invalid: junior homonym of Terebrina Rafinesque, 1815; Dimidacus is a replacement name)
  • Terebrum Montfort, 1810
  • TriplostephanusDall, 1908
  • VertagusLink, 1807

Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails. [1]

Contents

Species in this genus do not possess a radula.

Species

Species in the genus Terebra include: [1] [2] [3]

Nomen dubium
Uncertain status
Terebra maculata shell Terebra maculata Linne, 1758 (4323124908).jpg
Terebra maculata shell
Terebra inversa, a fossil gastropod from Pliocene deposits near Antwerp. Terebra inversa.jpg
Terebra inversa , a fossil gastropod from Pliocene deposits near Antwerp.

Synonyms

This list is incomplete

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Terebra Bruguière, 1789 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 14 September 2010.
  2. "Terebra". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
  4. Terryn, Y. (2010). Perirhoe circumcincta (Deshayes, 1857). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=438755 on 2010-05-19